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Suffer Guitar Tablature
The Smashing Pumpkins
Suffer
Off Gish (1991)
Written by Billy Corgan
Tabbed by Jimi Jackson
Standard Tuning

One of the older songs by the Pumpkins. Here you
are…

Guitar 1: Billy
Guitar 2: James


Intro:

Drums aaaaaaand…

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------------------------|
|---------------------------7*---|
|--7*--------------7*-----7*-----| 
|-----------------------7*-------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

James
|--------------0-------------------0-------|
|--3---3-3-3---3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3---3-3-3---|
|--3p2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2---2-2-2---|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0---|
|------------------------------------------|

repeat


Verse: 

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------------------------|
|---------------------------7*---|
|--7*--------------7*-----7*-----| 
|-----------------------7*-------|
|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|

James
|----------0-----------------0------|
|--3---3-3-3-3-3-3-3---3-3-3-3------|
|--3p2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3p2-2-2-2-2------|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0------|
|--0---0-0-0-0-0-0-0---0-0-0-0------|
|-----------------------------------|

repeat


Bridge:

Billy + James
|--0----------0------------0---|
|--1------------1----------1---|
|--0--------------0--------0---| 
|--2-----------------------2---|
|--3-----------------------3---|
|------------------------------|
              ^ ^ ^
James uses a flanger for this

Repeat verse riff once and then repeat 
the upper part of this bridge


Bridge: repeat Intro

Verse: same


Bridge:

Billy + James
|--0----------0------------0---|
|--1------------1----------1---|
|--0--------------0--------0---| 
|--2-----------------------2---|
|--3-----------------------3---|
|------------------------------|
              ^ ^ ^
James uses a flanger for this

Repeat verse riff once and then repeat 
the upper part of this bridge


Chorus:

Billy 
|--0----------------0-----------3----------------|
|--3----------------3-----------3----------------|
|--2----------------2-----------0----------------|
|--0----------------0-----------2----------------|
|-------------------x-----------2----------------|
|-------------------1----------------------------|

James plays the verse Riff

repeat


Interlude:

Only billy for a few bars

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------------2-------|
|--------3-------------0-----|
|------0---0-------0-----0---| repeat
|----2-------2---0-----------|
|--3-----------2-------------|
|----------------------------|

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------2-------|
|--------3-----0---3---|
|------0---0---0---2---|
|----2-------2-0---0---|
|--3-----------2---0---|
|----------------------|

then
over Bass riff

Billy
|--0-----------------|
|--3-----------------| 8x
|--2-----------------|
|--0-----------------|
|--0-----------------|
|--------------------|

James plays the fills between Billy´s chords:

James (Flanger)
|--------------------------2-----------------2---------------7---|
|------------------------3---------------------------------------|
|----------------------2-----------------2---------------2-------| twice
|---------0------------------------------------------------------|
|-------0--------------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------------------|


Solo:

Billy
|-------15-14-----12-14-15-14h15p14~~--1715p14h15p14~~-12-14-15---|
|--15~~----------15--------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--------------------------------------------------------------------|

Billy
|--14-12--------|
|--------15~~---|
|---------------|
|---------------|
|---------------|
|---------------|


James 
|----------0---------------0---------------0---------|
|------3-----3---3-----3-----3---3-----3-----3---3---|
|----2---2-----2-----2---2-----2-----2---2-----2-----| 
|--0---------------0---------------0-----------------| 
|----------------------------------------------------|
|----------------------------------------------------|

James
|--0------3---3---|
|--1-xxxx-3---3---|
|--0-xxxx-0---0---| repeat
|--2-xxxx-0---0---| 
|--3-xxxx-x---x---|
|---------3---3---|

repeat the part James plays during the solo twice and
six times over this


Billy 
|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0------3-----3---|
|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-xxxx-3-----3---|
|--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-xxxx-0-----0---| 5 times
|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-xxxx-0-----0---|
|------------------3-xxxx-x-----x---|
|-------------------------3---3-3---|


Billy + James
|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0--------|
|--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-1-xxxx---|
|--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-0-xxxx---|
|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-2-xxxx---|
|------------------3-xxxx---|
|---------------------------|


End:

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------------2-------|
|--------3-------------0-----|
|------0---0-------0-----0---| repeat
|----2-------2---0-----------|
|--3-----------2-------------|
|----------------------------|

Billy (Flanger)
|--------------2---|
|--------3-----0---|
|------0---0---0---|
|----2-------2-0---|
|--3-----------2---|
|------------------|


"Last night I turned around and thought I saw 
myself turning – inside the strangest dream of
lifes unlived and cities burning"
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